FISCAL CADASTRE
A fiscal cadastre is a cadastre designed for property tax purposes. That is, it includes
those factors required for implementation of a property tax system such as legal
description, dimensions, location of boundaries, ownership, description of
improvements, and land use.
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CADASTRAL SURVEY PROGRAM
The Cadastral Survey Program in the country started way back in 1913, with the
enactment of Commonwealth Act No. 2259, otherwise known as the Cadastral Act. But
through the years, the project has not been given enough resources for its implementation.
In 1992, with the passage of Republic Act No. 7160, also known as the Local Government
Code of 1991, the functions to conduct cadastral survey, lot survey, and isolated and
special surveys were among the functions of the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) that were devolved to the local government units (LGUs).
Ten years later, in 2012, it was found out that not a single municipality had completed its
cadastral survey due to lack of manpower and financial resources. This prompted the DENR,
through DENR Administrative Order No. 2001-23, to get back from the LGUs the devolved
functions to execute, supervise and manage land surveys.
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Land Management Bureau (Philippines)
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Land Management Bureau
Kawanihan ng Pamamahala sa mga Lupain
Agency overview
Formed September 2, 1901
Headquarter Plaza
s Cervantes, Binondo, Manila, Philippines
Agency
Atty. Emelyne V. Talabis, Director
executive
Parent Department of Environment and Natural
agency Resources
Website www.lmb.gov.ph
The Philippines' Land Management Bureau (Filipino: Kawanihan ng Pamamahala sa mga Lupa,
abbreviated as LMB), is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources responsible for administering, surveying, managing, and
disposing Alienable and Disposable (A&D) lands and other government lands not placed under the
jurisdiction of other government agencies.
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Contents
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1Promoting social equity by giving public agricultural lands to the rural masses
2Cadastral survey
3Amendment of Act 926
4Enactment of Commonwealth Act No. 141
5Post war efforts to fast-track land distribution
6Devolution of functions
7Reorganization of the DENR
8See also
9External links
Promoting social equity by giving public agricultural lands to the
rural masses[edit]
The Land Management Bureau (and the regional Land Management Sector) was organized on
September 5, 1999 under Act 218 as the Insular Bureau of Public Lands (IBPL) with the mandate of
supervising the survey and distribution of public lands in the Philippine Islands. William Tipton was
appointed as the first chief of the IBPL. Under his supervision, the Bureau planned a system for the
survey of the archipelago and in 1903 implemented Act 926 or the first Public Land Act of the country
which became the basis of public land disposition thereafter.
Disposition under this law was done by way of homestead, free patent, sale and lease of public
lands suitable for agriculture. The name Insular Bureau of Public Land was later changed by virtue of
Act 1470 to the Bureau of Lands, the name became popularly known to the masses who were the
direct beneficiaries of public agricultural lands for distribution.
The Bureau of Lands was likewise mandated to administer the distribution of friar lands under Act
1120 in 1930. It is the first land reform program in the country as vast tract of the most productive
agricultural lands were purchased by the Insular Government from religious orders and agricultural
corporations and sold to actual occupants and settlers.
Cadastral survey[edit]
In order to expedite public land distribution, then Director of Lands Chas H. Sleeper introduced
cadastral surveying, a public land survey that covers an extensive area, usually an entire
municipality, subdividing the same into parcels for purposes of public land distribution. The first
cadastral survey project (Cadastral Project No. 1) was conducted in Pilar, Bataan in November 1908.
In 1913, Act No. 2259, otherwise known as the Cadastral Act, was implemented providing for a
procedure of judicial adjudication of public lands. Under his leadership, he established the first
Survey School in Manila High School (MHS) some time in 1908 to train Filipino surveyors. It was
later transferred to the Philippine School of Trade and Arts (PSTA). The first Filipino to head the
bureau was the former revolutionary general, Gen. Manuel Tinio who held office from 1913 - 1914.
Amendment of Act 926[edit]
Finding the potential impact of the disposition activity for the people and for the economy as a whole,
Act 926 was revised to increase patent distribution. The second Public Land Act (Act 2874) was thus
enacted on 1919 in order to hasten the disposition of public agricultural lands to the Filipinos by
introducing the system of land classification and increasing the homestead area from sixteen
hectares (40 acres) to twenty-four hectares (59 acres).
The Survey School of the Bureau was transferred to the University of the Philippines (UP), College
of Engineering in 1925. It was also during this time that the Bureau of Lands was divided into nine
inspection district and thirty-two district land offices in order to decentralize land surveying and
processing of land patent application to the provinces. However, the appointment of district land
officers was done by designation only among surveyors, public land inspectors, land attorneys, and
clerks.
Enactment of Commonwealth Act No. 141[edit]
It was only in 1939 that the position of District Land Offices (DLOs) was formally created under
Executive Order No. 246. DLOs were authorized for the first time to render decisions on important
matters. Public Land Act of 1936 was enacted which remains the governing law on public lands.
Before the start of the war, the bureau was able to issue a total of 93,694 patents and had conducted
a total of 289 cadastral surveys by the Bureau, the last being Cad 289 in Manay, Davao Oriental
for judicial titling.
Post war efforts to fast-track land distribution[edit]
In 1953, the Bureau of Lands entered the era of modernization with the introduction of IBM and
Remington Rand computing machines capable of handling bulk computations. The bureau became
the most advanced government agency in the Philippines in terms of electronic computing. This
effort was made in order to respond to the need to speed up the distribution of public agricultural
lands in the rural area due to the agrarian unrest in the countryside and to reconstruct records
damaged from the war. From 1950 to 1960, 1.4 million hectares of agricultural lands were distributed
by the bureau, double that of the 1930-1940 period.
Devolution of functions[edit]
In 1972, Republic Act No. 6516 was enacted authorizing the district land officers in every province to
sign patents not exceeding five hectares thereby fully devolving the functions to the district offices.
Because of the devolution, more than two million hectares of agricultural land was distributed by the
Bureau of Lands from 1970 to 1980.
Reorganization of the DENR[edit]
Executive Order No. 192 organized the Department of Environment of Natural Resources (DENR) in
June 1987. The new organizational setup integrated the Bureau of Lands District Land Offices with
the field offices of the DENR and transformed the Bureaus Central Office to the Land Management
Bureau, which became a staff bureau. The reorganized bureau spearheaded the distribution of
public agricultural lands through the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) of the
government distributing 1.32 million hectares to the rural community.
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